11 pages tagged "cultural distance"

How to address your teacher?

Documents large differences between countries in the way students normally expect to address their teachers.

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Where are you from? Not "just" a conversation starter

What you mean and what your conversation partner feels are not always the same thing.

27 Jan 2025 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Process issues in International Research [1995-current]

Research program 3: Loosely coupled projects or articles that focus on research process issues in international research: discarding the myths of expatriate failure rates, European homogeneity, the cultural distance concept. International mail surveys: timing, response rates, response styles

06 Feb 2016 (updated 25 Aug 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Where are you from? Not “just” a conversation starter

What you mean and what your conversation partner feels are not always the same thing.

02 Apr 2025 (updated 04 Apr 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Culture shock

Explaining culture shock and how to deal with it

06 Feb 2016 (updated 15 Sep 2020) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Country of origin matters for multinationals too

Reviews my research on country-of-origin effects on MNCs over the last 15 years

23 Jan 2020 (updated 04 Apr 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

MNC entry mode: it is not just about choice!

Reviews my research on entry mode choice including some unpublished work on management of different entry modes

28 Apr 2019 (updated 04 Oct 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The importance of context in International Business

A critical analysis of the use of cultural distance in international business

24 Jan 2019 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Twenty-three articles with free publisher access

Alerts reader to free access of official publisher versions of my articles

04 Dec 2016 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Hablas vielleicht un peu la mia language?

Systematically reviews the impact of language differences on the HQ-subsidiary relationship

31 Aug 2016 (updated 03 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Should we distance ourselves from the cultural distance concept?

Argues IB research would do well to reconsider its fascination with distance measures

27 Apr 2016 (updated 03 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing